Interview of Sumie Tanaka (nee Sasaki)

Interview of Sumie Tanaka (nee Sasaki)

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Title Proper Interview of Sumie Tanaka (nee Sasaki)
Date(s) 2012
General material designation
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Scope and content
The interview discusses Sumie's parents immigrating from Wakayama ken and setting up and selling various businesses on Powell Street, Vancouver, BC. Sumie, the oldest of three girls, at the age of two was taken back to Japan for fourteen years to live with her grandparents. At the age of sixteen, she returned to Powell Street in 1934 where she worked in different businesses run by her father. The businesses include the New World Hotel, Blackman Market, Matsunoya., Fuji Chop Suey and Momotaro and Sumie discusses each. She also discusses the Tokiwa yu; a bathhouse she went to daily. At the end she recounts the influence Etsuji Morii had on the Powell Street area.
Name of creator
Sumie Tanaka (nee Sasaki) was born in April, 1918. At the age of two she moved to Japan to live with her grandparents for fourteen years. At sixteen, she returned to Vancouver, BC to work on Powell Street in shops owned by her father.
Immediate source of acquisition
No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was not digitized.

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Interview of Sumie Tanaka (nee Sasaki)
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